How to Draw an Owl

UPDATE: These owls will be in a new book Auggie's Counting Robot. Find more Auggie drawings at the Auggie Bloggie.

If you live with a tiny art director who demands to see hundreds of owls, you become quite an efficient owl drawer. Here is a very efficient owl in 7 steps. (Our art director really appreciates the sleeping owls).

How to Make a Pompom Character Part 2 (Hallowe'en Edition)

When we experimenting with pompom-making techniques for our workshop at Word on the Street last month, we came across this technique at the sweetest occasion which does not require a pompom maker. Although we didn't end up using the technique, we did have a happy accident while making it: if you don't cut through all the yarn at the end (see the link and this will make sense) you can make a squid, octopus...or a ghost! Perfect for Hallowe'en.

How to Make a Pom Pom Character Part 1

Thanks to our friend Roger for pointing out that vancouverisawesome did a little feature on Foggy for our Word on the Street appearance. This has prompted us to finally put up our pom pom instructions.

We have some Hallowe'en pom pom ideas here (see part 2).

Pom Poms on the Street

Thanks to everyone who came out to make crafts with us at Word on the Street this Sunday. We made pom pom characters. Here is a gallery of some of the great pom pom characters from the workshop. We'll be putting up directions on how to make your own pom pom character next weekend as our rainy day project, so check back soon.

Thanks to Chirp magazine for hosting us. We're putting together a story for Chirp's spring issue right now and we'll be sure to post more details about that soon, too.

Puppet Theatre

Here is a beautiful rainy day project for the kids. Bloesem Kids and June crafts

have put together templates for a puppet theatre to colour in and download. Find the links here. We made ours using a shoe box, which made it very stable and easy to use. This is very inspiring! You could take pictures and use them to make a book....

The Teachers' Holidays

The Teachers' Holidays was written and photo-illustrated by the children in Division 1 and 2 at Charles Dickens Elementary after reading Foggy.

It begins:

One June morning, all the kids in Karen, Jen, and Wendy's classes were looking forward to summer. The kids began to imagine what the teachers might do on their holidays...